Tired of comment spam? Let Akismet take care of it for you.
We’ve improved the accuracy of the Akismet stats feature that was introduced in Akismet 2.2.1. You might notice a slight change in the total spam, comments and accuracy figures reported at the top of your stats page, and the percentages shown in the pie chart. The Historical Stats figures and time graphs are unaffected – these were correct all along.
There’s no plugin upgrade required.
Our overall spam statistics remain unchanged, and Akismet is as accurate as ever.
Just a bit after a year after we welcomed Defensio to the market it’s just been announced that that they’re being swallowed by the public security company Websense.
Given the size of Defensio’s team and user base it probably wasn’t a huge acquisition, but this is still an important validation of the space in general as traditional email anti-spam and security companies have been completely blind to web spam thus far, and in my opinion it’s the fastest growing threat to most businesses today.
(Think about it: if you get a spam in your email, it’s annoying but not the end of the world; if you get a spam on your website it’s immediately visible to your customers who probably won’t be impressed by “buy viagra’s” contribution to the conversation when thinking about your products or services.)
2009 is shaping up to be a pretty interesting year in our world. We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on the ever-increasing players in this market, but more importantly we’ll be listening to you guys and do our best to be as invisible and effective as possible. (Especially as we approach 10 billion spams blocked!)
